Your nudes show nothing.
And four noses?  Vain vane.  One
knows what the wind blows.












PABLO

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This tongue-in-cheek haiku criticizes Pablo Picasso for his unrevealing nudes, which is somewhat like taunting Ansel Adams for forgetting color or Monet for being fuzzy.  A beautiful model is hardly erotic if observed from multiple viewpoints, deconstructed and reassembled (often with duplicate anatomy).   Similarly, a weathervane functions only because the compass is fixed while a single pointer spins freely.  (The word vane in fact comes from the Anglo-Saxon fane, meaning flag.)  Yet imagine a weather vane with four perpendicular pointers and radial symmetry.  It would not be four times better; it would be useless, as four evenly spaced pointers would not know which should point the way of the wind.       Despite all this, somewhere there must be someone attracted to a nude with four noses, and consider that four-nosed person, the greater ambivalence and confusion chasing a scent.  Yet another example of how one with less nose is one who knows more. Does this haiku mean something different to you? Contact me!